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India's capital to shut schools as toxic smog chokes city
Nov 04, 2022 (AFP)
Smoke from farmers burning crop stubble, vehicle exhaust and factory emissions combine every winter to blanket the capital in a deadly grey haze. On Friday, lev...
'Hazardous' smog chokes India's capital
Nov 03, 2022 (AFP)
Levels of the most dangerous particles -- PM2.5, so tiny they can enter the bloodstream -- were 588 per cubic metre early on Thursday morning, according to moni...
Air pollution 'silent killer' in African cities: study
Oct 27, 2022 (AFP)
"Air pollution (in African cities) is high and rising, it's rising pretty quickly," said Desmond Appiah, Ghana director at the Clean Air Fund, a British NGO whi...
EU aims for 'zero pollution' in air and water
Oct 26, 2022 (AFP)
The points set out by the European Commission bolster its push transitioning towards a greener future for the 27-nation bloc -- a core pledge by commission chie...
Post-Diwali Delhi wakes to toxic firecracker smog
Oct 25, 2022 (AFP)
According to international monitoring company IQAir, harmful PM 2.5 particles surged to 350 on the air quality index -- more than three times the reading a day ...
Study finds evidence that fuel regulation reduced air pollution from shipping
Oct 19, 2022 (SPX)
Ship tracks, the polluted marine clouds that trail ocean-crossing vessels, are a signature of modern trade. Like ghostly fingerprints, they trace shipping lanes...
Surfers, miners fight over South Africa's white beaches
Oct 19, 2022 (AFP)
Yet this stretch of South Africa's west coast has also become a battleground, pitching mining firms against environmentalists fearful that one of nature's last ...
Gold mining threatens 'forest giraffe' in DR Congo
Oct 18, 2022 (AFP)
They called for a halt to the "rapidly expanding" mining operation in the Okapi Wildlife Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the northeast of the country. ...
Study explores the potential for mechanical devices to clear the ocean of plastics
Oct 13, 2022 (SPX)
However, a new study suggests that while they do remove plastics and other items of marine litter, the quantities of litter removed can be comparatively low and...
Biden heads west to talk environment and economy
Oct 12, 2022 (AFP)
Biden's first stop will be Camp Hale in Colorado, a former US Army World War II training ground in the Rocky Mountains, which he will designate as a national mo...
Peru villagers accuse government of ignoring harm from mining
Oct 12, 2022 (AFP)
The community of La Oroya accuses the government in Lima of having allowed the Doe Run Peru company, owned by US group Renco, to pollute at will while turning a...
Biden heads west to talk environment, economy ahead of midterms
Oct 12, 2022 (AFP)
Biden's first stop was at Camp Hale, a former US Army World War II training ground in the Rocky Mountains. Sporting his signature aviator sunglasses, he designa...
Plastic gobbling enzymes in worm spit may help ease pollution
Oct 04, 2022 (AFP)
Humans produce some 400 million tonnes of plastic waste each year despite international drives to reduce single-use plastics and to increase recycling. Around a...
Germany says mass fish deaths in Oder river a 'man-made disaster'
Sep 30, 2022 (AFP)
Presenting a report into the disaster that saw at least 300 tonnes of dead fish pulled from the river in Germany and Poland this summer, the German environment ...
German city dwellers sue government over air pollution
Sep 26, 2022 (AFP)
The residents of Berlin, Duesseldorf, Frankfurt and Munich believe current government legislation is "demonstrably inadequate to protect people's health", accor...
NASA and Google team up to better track local air pollution
Sep 22, 2022 (SPX)
"We're thrilled about our partnership with NASA to make daily air quality more actionable at a local level," said Rebecca Moore, director at Google Earth, Earth...
Fossil fuels make up 90% of Middle East air pollution: study
Sep 22, 2022 (AFP)
The World Health Organization this year said the MENA region had some of the poorest air quality on Earth. The long-standing assumption was that the smog chokin...
US cracks down on potent class of greenhouse gases
Sep 21, 2022 (AFP)
The super-pollutants, known as hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), can be hundreds to thousands of times more potent than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphe...
Plastic garbage covers Central American rivers, lakes and beaches
Sep 16, 2022 (AFP)
It is a sorry scene that has also become an all too common sight on the Caribbean beaches of Honduras, where thousands of tons of rubbish arrive from neighborin...
Bin-opening cockatoos enter 'arms race' with humans
Sep 12, 2022 (AFP)
The white birds, which can grow nearly as long as a human arm, initially surprised researchers by devising an ingenious technique to prise open household bin li...
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